She might run for president. She says she could beat Obama.
And now Sarah Palin's obligatory I-might-run-for-president book, America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, has finally been released, so the world can better understand what a Palin presidency would mean.
Let's dive in, shall we?
In her Introduction, Sarah explains "central political struggle facing America today." It's not about tax cuts. It's not about energy independence (she's an expert, you know). It's not about whether we should stand with "our North Korean allies."
No, the central political struggle is the war between the "hand-painted, homemade signs" of the teabaggers versus the "professionally printed signs" expressing the "gripes of Washington special interest groups" held by "hired stooges."
In short, the people holding the uniformly printed signs have their hands out; Washington is spending away our kids' future and they still want more. But the people holding the handmade signs are the ones paying the bills. If the mainstream media wasn't busy insinuating that they're all racists and haters, it would have to ackknowledge this fact. So the media keeps the coverage based on these patriots' motives. But what these good, honest Americans are asking for isn't ugly and dangerous. It's right there, on their signs and their flags and their faces, young and old and black and white: They want their country back.
Implicitly, then, a top priority for President Palin would be setting the record straight that the people who wave their signs at teabagger rallies are not "racists and haters"; they're just regular people who want their country back from the Kenyan-born Muslim socialist terrorist who stole the election with the help of ACORN and George Soros so that he and his America-hating wife could implement their wicked socialist scheme to destroy America by making kids eat healthy food and get some exercise once in a while.
What's wrong with that?
You'll also learn, in the first pages of Sarah's book, that:
- The best way to prove you "love your freedom" is to wave an American flag and chant "USA! USA!"
- Her Uncle Ron and Aunt Kate represent "normal Americans" who love America because of their involvement with the Tea Party.
- Calvin Coolidge was one of the best -- or at least most quotable -- presidents.
- Ronald Reagan was awesome. So awesome that she mentions him three times in her Introduction.
We also learn that the Constitution, as originally written, is perfect. America is perfect. The only problem that people like her normal, America-loving aunt and uncle face is the destructive policies of the current administration.
For example:
When times are uncertain--when we're worried about the direction our country is headed in, as we are today--we can always turn to these fundamental principles. Truth be told, they're old ideas, not just the notion that our government should be limited, but also that all men and women are equal before the law; that life is sacred; and that God is the source of our rights, not government.
Of course, Sarah conveniently skips over the fact that the Constitution, as originally written, did not state that "men and women are equal before the law." You'd think a woman who has spent the better part of the year claiming to lead a new feminist movement might point out that women were quite explicitly unequal before the law. But then, Sarah's "feminism" only emerges when it's convenient for her. Like, say, when the media challenges her mistruths, misstatements, flip-flopping, or straight up incoherence. Then, she's a warrior against sexism.
When a woman is physically assaulted at a Rand Paul rally? Crickets. When it comes to ensuring equal pay for equal work? She's more concerned with protecting businesses from lawsuits. When it comes to healthcare for women and children? She's virulently opposed.
Maybe that's why when it comes to women's health, the overwhelming majority of American women don't trust Sarah Palin.
But maybe she'll get to that in Chapter One.